Sundays @ CCP Lecture Series

Gohar Homayounpour, Ph.D 

(Teheran, Iran)      

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Resurrecting the erotic: Towards an ethics of life through “the” subversive feminist revolt of our times in Iran.

12-2pm (CST): ZOOM Presentation & Discussion

NO RECORDING

About the presentation: In this talk, Gohar Homayounpour will attempt to compose a triptych overview of her three texts written following the radical feminine uprising in Iran since September 16th, 2022. Her wish is to elaborate the resurrection of the erotic, a resurrection which has been at the very core of this subversive feminist revolt, of a birth of a new feminine epic hero, towards an ethics of life, and its conditions.   

"The Birth of a New Female Epic Hero" 

"A Revolt Against the Death Penalty"

"Abracadabra: on the poisoning of schoolgirls in Iran" 

“I believe that what we are observing in Iran is one of the most significant and subversive feminist movements of our times, one which I would go as far as to call a fourth wave feminism. We are observing the return of the repressed female body that refuses to be covered symbolically, and that says: look at me, in my ordinariness, in my hunger for an ethics of woman, life, and freedom.”

Dr. Gohar Homayounpour is a psychoanalyst and award winning author. She is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. She is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the Freudian Group of Tehran, of which she is also founder and past president. She is a member of the scientific board at the Freud Museum in Vienna, and of the IPA group Geographies of Psychoanalysis. Her first book, Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran (2012, MIT) won the Gradiva award and has been translated into many languages. Her latest book is titled Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning (2022, Routledge).

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to provide one example of current event(s) and describe their impact on the state of mind of the contemporary Iranian woman.

Participants will be able to provide one example of how a therapist may be impacted by events and/or trauma in their social environment, and how this can both affect and inform their clinical work.

This is an Intermediate Level Presentation

Fees

CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

Continuing Education

This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by January 11, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Homayounpour, G. (2012).  Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran. The MIT Press.

Homayounpour, G. (2022). Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning. Routledge.

Lear, J. (2006). Radical Hope, Ethics in the face of cultural devastation. Harvard University Press.

Butler, J. (2020). The Force of non-violence: An Ethico-political Bind. Verso.

Preta, L. (2015). Geographies of Psychoanalysis: Encounters Between Cultures in Tehran. Mimesis International.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D

(New York, NY)

Friday, January 17, 2025

INTERPRETATION:  Time, Timing, Loss & Recovery

7-9pm (CST)

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Time: 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins: 7 PM(CST)

Location: Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

We look forward to seeing you there, whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the presentation: In the paper the author argues for the contemporary and ongoing relevance of interpretation and suggests that it serves a crucial linking function between patient and analyst. In addition, interpretation provides an important link with temporalities: the time of the analytic hour and the time of the patient’s history as it unfolds in the present. Analysis, the author argues, is bounded by time and by loss. Writing from a Kleinian perspective, the paper includes two case vignettes that exemplify these propositions.

Dr. Lynne Zeavin is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in full time practice in New York City.  She is a training and supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, where she chairs the Curriculum Committee. An Associate Editor at JAPA, she is the author of papers that have explored idealization, the status of the object, neutrality, interpretation and the various aspects of Kleinian theory. Dr. Zeavin supervises widely from a contemporary Kleinian perspective. She is co-founder of the Rita Frankiel Memorial Fellowship funded by the Melanie Klein Trust and a founder of Second Story, a non-institutional psychoanalytic space in New York City. The co-editor, with Donald Moss, of Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Contemporary Moment, Dr. Zeavin is currently working on a co-edited book, with Sally Weintrobe, on Clinical Conversations Surrounding the Climate Emergency.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to describe the temporal dimension of psychoanalytic treatment and its relationship with mourning and loss.

2. Participants will be able to identify the role of interpretation in the here and now of the analytic session

This is an All Level Presentation

Fees

CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

Continuing Education

This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by January 16, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Baraitser, L. (2017). Enduring Time. London: Bloomsbury Press.
Bion, W.r. (1962). Learning from Experience. London: Karnac Books, 1984. 

Britton, R & Steiner, J. (1994). Interpretation: Selected fact or overvalued idea? International Journal of Psychoanalysis 75:1069–1078. 

Feldman, M. (1993). The dynamics of reassurance. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 74:275–285.

Klein, M. (1940). Mourning and its relation to manic-depressive states.  In Love, Guilt and Reparation and Other Works, 1921–1945. London.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.

Fridays @CCP

Friday, February 7, 2025

Alan Levy, PhD

(Chicago, Il)

Mourning the Never Was

7-9pm (CST)

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Time: 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins: 7 PM(CST)

Location: Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

We look forward to seeing you there, whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the presentation: The Never Was describes a complicated aspect of mourning that has received comparatively little attention. Most work on mourning focusses upon losses that are tangible, such as the death of a loved one. The “Never Was” is my term for situations where one’s life has been so disrupted that its course has been irrevocably altered. The pain of this profound and at times violent spoliation results in a hard dissociation. The Never Was encompasses the need to mourn a life that was never lived out as one thought it should have been. One result is feeling that the old life, the life that was supposed to be, never was. As such, a person then comes to live out a ghost life, a life that cannot be fully inhabited, because it isn’t the life that was supposed to be. Indeed, the Never Was, the life that isn’t, becomes a shapeless specter, not fully thought, but always present as an absence. The Never Was is dissociated because experiencing the magnitude of the loss would cause deep and overwhelming pain. Mourning this loss becomes psychically dangerous since it threatens to unleash the pain, the deep sadness, and the anger that needs to be mourned.

The Never Was is an extreme aspect that is inherent in all losses to some extent. A loss always includes what might have been but can never be. However, the Never Was is distinguished from other losses by its severity, the global nature of the upheaval, and the extreme rupture in continuity that results.

 I will discuss the case of patient whose life was upended by a sudden placement in residential care as a young adolescent. She remained in various residential and hospital programs for 15 years. During that time, she lived a regimented life. She was subjected to what was at times coercive treatment. In care, she lost no fewer than 17 friends to suicide, homicide, and terminal illness. Upon her discharge, she was expected to lead a “normal” life—with no skills to live independently, no diploma, few friends and no job experience. I will illustrate our therapeutic work with the Never Was that she has only recently begun to recognize, and the deep, unbound pain that makes such mourning so complicated.

Alan J. Levy, Ph.D.  is a certified psychoanalyst, having trained at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York. Dr. Levy was on staff in the Departments of Psychiatry of Tufts and Columbia Universities. He has held faculty positions at Columbia, the University of Southern California (USC), Loyola University Chicago, and the University of Chicago.  Dr. Levy was elected as a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow of the National Academies of Practice.  He was awarded the Distinguished Career Award from Simmons University, received the Educator’s Award from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and was the winner of the Edith Sabshin Award for outstanding teaching given by the American Psychoanalytic Association.  Dr. Levy maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Northfield, Illinois.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this presentation, participants shall be able to:

-Recognize the occurrence of the Never Was in clinical practice.

-Articulate how the Never Was complicates the process of mourning.

-Better navigate the complications entailed by the Never Was in the mourning process with patients.

This is an intermediate to advanced program

Fees

CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

Continuing Education

This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by February 6, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Freud, A. (1967). About losing and being lost. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 22:9-19.

Freud, S. (1917). Mourning and melancholia. SE 14:237-258.

Gurevich, H. (2008). The language of absence. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 89(3):561-578.

Loewald, H.W. (1973). On internalization. In The Essential Loewald. Jonathan Lear, Editor. Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Company.

Mann Kulish, N. (1989). Mourning a lost childhood: The problem of Peter Pan. In The Problem of Loss and Mourning. David R. Dietrich and Peter C. Shabad, Editors. Madison, CT: International Universities press.

Ogden, T.H: (2012). Creative Readings. New York: Routledge. Chapter 1. Freud’s “Mourning and melancholia” and the origins of object relations theory.

Scarfone, D. (2015). The Unpast. New York: The Unconscious in Translation.

Stern, DB. (2019). The Infinity of the Unsaid. New York: Routledge.

Wolfenstein, M. (1966). How is mourning possible? Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 21:93-123.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.

Fridays @CCP Lecture Series

Howard Levine MD

(Brookline, MA)

Friday, March 7, 2025

Minding the Gap

7-9pm (CST)

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Time: 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins: 7 PM(CST)

Location: Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

We look forward to seeing you there, whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the Presentation: This paper addresses the question of what we can and cannot come to know about psychic reality and psychic functioning and about the opportunities and limits of language and thought with particular reference to Freud’s theory of representation, unrepresented states and the psychoanalytic clinical situation. Drawing upon the work of authors such as Freud, Bion, Winnicott and Green, it attempts to widen the understanding and reach of psychoanalytic theory beyond neurosis and neurotic psychic organizations and to explore the transformational dimension of psychoanalytic treatment in the hopes of more successfully expanding the clinical application of the psychoanalytic model to borderline, narcissistic and other primitive character structures. In discussing the processes through which sense and meaning are assigned to concrete facts, - e.g., Bion’s description of daytime dreaming, alpha function and the communicative aspect of projective identification - it addresses unrepresented (non-ideational) psychic states and describes the role of the work of construction and the creativity of normative psychic regulatory functioning in normative psychic development and the analytic situation. 

Howard B. Levine, is a member of APSA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society and Pulsion, on the faculty of NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, on the Editorial Board of the IJP and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the author of Transformations de l’Irreprésentable (Ithaque 2019) and Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022) and editor of The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (Routledge 2022), The Freudian Matrix of Andre Green. Towards A Psychoanalysis For The 21st Century by André Green (Routledge/IPA 2023) and Andre Green’s On The Destruction and Death Drives (Phoenix/Karnac 2023). His co-edited books include Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning (Karnac 2013); On Freud’s Screen Memories (Karnac 2014); The Wilfred Bion Tradition (Karnac 2016); Bion in Brazil. (Karnac 2017); The Clinical Thinking of W.R. Bion in Brazil (Routledge 2024); Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative (Karnac 2018); Covidian Life (2021 Phoenix); Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at Bleger’s Classical Work (Routledge/IPA, 2022); and Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self (Phoenix 2023).

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able tounderstand and apply the two-track model of psychoanalysis to contemporary clinical practice. 
2. Participants will be able to understand and apply the implications of Freud’s (1937)the implications of Freud’s (1937) paper on Constructions in Psychoanalysis to contemporary psychoanalytic clinical practice.
3. Participants will be able to understand and apply Winnicott’s (1974) model of fear of breakdown to their current clinical practice.

This is an Intermediate to advanced level presentation.

Fees

CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

New / Ongoing Fellows: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

Continuing Education

This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by March 6, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Green, A. (1998). The primordial mind and the work of the negative. IJPA 79: 649-665.

Levine, H.B. (2010). Creating analysts, creating analytic patients. IJPA 91:1385-1404.

Levine, H.B. (2011). Construction then and now.

In: On Freud’s “Constructions in Analysis.” Edited by S. Lewkowicz, T. Bokanowski with G. Pragier. London: Karnac, pp. 87-100.

Levine, H.B. (2012). The colourless canvas: Representation, therapeutic action and the creation of mind. IJPA 93: 607-629.

Winnicott, D.W. (1974). Fear of breakdown. IRPA 1:103-107.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.

Sundays @ CCP

Matt Hiller, A.M., LCSW

Sunday, March 23, 2025

The Return to Janet: How is Dissociation Being Conceptualized as a Therapeutic Modality in Ketamine Treatments?     

12-2pm (CST)

Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

&

Zoom

About the presentation: Over the last decade, Ketamine has increasingly gain popularity as a treatment for depression, suicidality, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Part of this popularity has hinged on claims that the dissociative effects of ketamine can assist patients with accessing and processing unintegrated memories and emotions from traumatic experiences. 

In this talk, I explore how this use of dissociation as a therapeutic modality connects to the work of French physician and psychologist, Pierre Janet. I make the case that the use of dissociation as a therapeutic touches on fundamental theoretical conflicts between Janet and Freud, which continue to complicate the relation between psychoanalysis and the field of ketamine therapy. Key among these conflicts are the use of hypnotic methods, the role of suggestion in psychotherapy, and the veracity of recalled memory. By better understanding the history of this conflict, I argue, psychoanalytic therapist will be better equipped to assess the clinical and ethical issues that emerge within ketamine treatments. 

Matt Hiller is a candidate in the joint social work and anthropology doctoral program at the University of Michigan. His doctoral research is support by the National Science Foundation and is currently focused on the use of ketamine as a mental health treatment in the United States.  

Along with being a doctoral student, Hiller is also a practicing psychotherapist. He is a student in the two-year psychoanalytic psychotherapy certificate program at CCP, and this talk is his graduation project. 

Learning Objectives

-Attendees will be able to connect current understandings of dissociation in ketamine treatment to Pierre Janet’s theories of traumatic memory.

-Attendees will understand conceptual differences between Janet and Freud’s understandings of trauma and dissociation.

This is an Intermediate Level of Presentation.

Fees

CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

Continuing Education

This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by March 22, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Breuer, J., & Freud, S. (1957). Studies on Hysteria (J. Strachey, Ed. & Trans.). Basic Books.

Domino, E. F., & Warner, D. S. (2010). Taming the Ketamine Tiger. Anesthesiology, 113(3), 678–684.

Herman, J. (1997). Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. Basic Books.

Van Der Hart, O. (1989). The dissociation theory of Pierre Janet. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 

2(4), 1–11.

Van Der Kolk, B. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin Books.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Zak Mucha, LCSW, Alan Levy, PhD,  Toula Kourliouros Kalven.

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Don Carveth, PhD

(Toronto, ON)

Friday, April 4, 2025

After a 45 year long journey and three psychoanalysis: where am I now

7-9pm (CST)

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Time: 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins: 7 PM(CST)

Location: Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

We look forward to seeing you there, whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the presentation: I graduated in 1985 from TIP trained, largely in ego psychology. I spent the next 15 years acquiring clinical experience and educating myself in American and British object relations theory, self psychology, relational, psychoanalysis, intersubjectivity theory, attachment theory and even Laconian theory.  But by the time of the new millennium, I was turning back to earlier Freudian concepts: the structural theory, the sadistic, superego, the unconscious sense of guilt, the unconscious need for punishment, etc. But as I was turning back to the psychoanalytic psychology of guilt, and the superego, much of our field was moving further and further away from this. In so doing psychoanalysis  was conforming to the wider culture of narcissism produced by neoliberal consumer capitalism . Like the wider society psychoanalysis has been in flight from guilt since the late 1950s. Time to overcome our social amnesia and turn back.

Dr. Donald L. Carveth is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought and Senior Scholar at York University in Toronto. He is a training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis and current Director of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. After completing a doctorate (1977) comparing and contrasting sociological and psychoanalytic theories of human nature (a summary of which was awarded the annual Theory Prize of the American Sociological Association in 1984), he undertook clinical psychoanalytic training, graduating from the Toronto Institute in 1985. With Dr. Eva Lester and others he helped found the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyseof which he is a past Editor-in-Chief. He has published some fifty papers in this and other journals. Over the past decade his work has concentrated on issues of guilt, guilt-substitutes, and the differentiation of conscience as a fourth component of the structural theory of the mind in addition to id, ego and superego. He is in private practice in Toronto.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to explain the difference between persecutory and reparative guilt.

Participants will be able to explain the difference between the super ego and the conscience and the origins of each

This is an Intermediate to Advanced Level of Presentation

Fees

CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

Continuing Education

This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by April 3, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Carveth, D. (2013). “The Still Small  Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience,” London: Karnac.

Carveth, D. (2023). “Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction.” London: Routledge. 

Carveth, D. (2023). Marching under the Banner of the Superego: Notes on the Mania for Reproaching. Paper presented as part of “The Political Mind” program of the British Psychoanalytic Society, May 30, 2023.  Online here: https://www.doncarveth.com/_files/ugd/8ad211_dd32806eb3bc4e2ea8866bfd08e0cee9.pdf

Frattaroli, E. (2013). Reflections on the absence of morality in psychoanalytic theory and practice. In S. Akhtar (Ed.), Guilt: Origins, Manifestations, and Management (pp. 83–110). New York: Jason Aronson.

Freud, S. (1916). Some character-types met with in psycho-analytic work.. S.E., 14: 311–333. 

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Peter Shabad, PhD

(Chicago, Il)

Friday, April 25, 2025

Is it Better to Love and Lose Or Never Love At All    

7-9 pm: (CST): ZOOM Presentation & Discussion

About the Presentation: In this presentation, I will use my autobiographical experience of living in Moscow as a child to highlight fundamental dilemmas that human beings face in the aftermath of experiencing significant disillusionment and suffering: ‘Is it better to love and lose or not to love so much?  “Is it better to hope passionately and endure the risk of significant disappointment or is it better not to hope so fervently?  In the aftermath of my own traumatic experience, I detached from what I loved in order to dilute the pain of losing.   Yet in dissociating from the risk of loving, I also detached from the passionate life force I needed to fulfill my life. In generally describe how through an individual’s attempt to cover up his vulnerabilities by forming a self-alienated relationship with oneself, a person can become trapped in an enclosed prison of isolation that prevents him from ‘seizing the vital moment’ of the one life he has at his disposal. I conclude the presentation by emphasizing the importance of how the openness of a dialogical relationship in psychotherapy with the therapist as “participatory witness” to the patient’s lonely suffering is an important prelude to the process of mourning.  Such mourning ultimately entails the replacement of self-shaming with self-acceptance of oneself as an individual.

Peter Shabad, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School. He is on the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and he is on the Faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is also Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Shabad is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (IUP, 1989) and is the author of Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy (Aronson, 2001). He is the author of numerous papers and book chapters on diverse topics such as the psychological implications of death, loss and mourning, giving and receiving, shame, parental envy, resentment, spite, and regret.  Dr. Shabad’s new book Passion, Shame, and The Freedom To Become: Seizing The Vital Moment In Psychoanalysis (2025) has just been published by Routledge

Learning Objectives

1. At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to describe how traumatic experiences lead to the question: Is it better to love and lose or never love at all?”
2. At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to describe how more emotional language and less intellectualized jargon is more useful clinically.

This is a  Beginning and Intermediate level Presentation

Fees

CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

Continuing Education

This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by April 24, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Shabad, P.  (2022) Owing and Being Owed: Shame and Responsibility Toward The Other, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32:4, 389-404. 

Shabad, P. (2020). The forward edge of resistance: Toward the dignity of human agency. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30 (1): 51-63.

Shabad, P. (2017). The vulnerability of giving:  Ethics and the generosity of receiving. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 37 (6): 359-374.

Shabad, P. (2011).  The dignity of creating: The patient’s contribution to the reachable-enough analyst. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21: 619-629.

Shabad, P.  (2010). The suffering of passion:  Metamorphoses and the embrace of the stranger, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 20: 710–729.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Claude Barbre, PhD, Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.

Sundays @ CCP

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Howard Ruan, MDiv, AM, LSW

(Chicago, Il) 

One Continuous Mistake: Desiring Zen and Psychoanalysis

12-2pm (CST)

Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

&

Zoom

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Annie Reiner, Ph.D., Psy.D., LCSW

(Los Angeles, CA)

Friday, May 23, 2025

Bion’s Basics and Beyond

What Language Is This Patient Speaking: Limitations of Language in the Psychic Realm

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Time: 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins 7 PM(CST)

Location: Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

We look forward to seeing you there, whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the Presentation: Dr. Annie Reiner will describe some of W.R. Bion’s fundamental ideas, including his thoughts about the challenges of using verbal language to communicate primitive, often non-verbal states of mind. Bion spoke frequently in Los Angeles about the challenge of using everyday language, created for the physical world of the senses, but which psychoanalysts must adapt and apply to the metaphysical world of the mind.

As knowledge of primitive mental states increases, so does this challenge of finding ways to speak to deeper levels of the mind. Dr. Reiner examines our use of language, and how psychoanalysts communicate with their patients, as well as their colleagues. Others of Bion’s clinical theories will also be discussed, including the “selected fact,” an innovative clinical technique, as well as his most controversial concept of O.  Clinical examples will be used to illustrate these ideas.

Annie Reiner has written five psychoanalytic books, as well as numerous articles in journals, and anthologies. She lectures extensively about psychoanalysis throughout the world, and  Dr. James Grotstein ranked her “...high among Bion scholars.”   In addition to her psychoanalytic writings, she has written four books of poetry, a book of short stories, plays, and is the author/illustrator of six children’s books.

Dr. Annie Reiner is a senior faculty member and training analyst at The Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) in Los Angeles. Her work was greatly influenced by Wilfred Bion, with whom she studied in the 1970's.  She lectures throughout the world, is published in numerous journals and anthologies, and is the author of four psychoanalytic books, including—The Quest for Conscience & The Birth of the Mind (Karnac 2009), Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind (Karnac 2012), Of Things Invisible to Mortal Sight: Celebrating The Work of James S. Grotstein (Karnac, 2017, and most recently, W.R. Bion’s Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2022). Based on these writings, Dr. James Grotstein ranked her “...high among Bion scholars.”  Her latest book, The Poetry, Art, and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion’s O (Routledge, projected publication date, January 2025).

Dr. Reiner is also a poet, painter, and a singer, and in addition to her psychoanalytic writings, she is the author of a book of short stories, four books of poems, and six children=s books which she also illustrated. She supervises and maintains a psychoanalytic practice in Beverly Hills, California. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to distinguish between the language of everyday life, and the language of emotional life   necessary in psychoanalytic work.

2. Participants will be able to observe the limitations in communicating about the metaphysical aspect of inner life.

3. Participants will be able to identify Bion’s concept of ‘O’ as a symbol for absolute truth and a sense of the infinite.

This is an All Level Presentation

Fees

CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

New / Ongoing Fellows: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

Continuing Education

This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by May 22, 2024 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Bion, W. R. (1962). Learning From Experience. New York: Basic Books.

Bion, W. R. (1970).  Attention and Interpretation. London, Karnac

Bion, W. R. (1974). Bion’s Brazilian Lectures I. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Imago Editora Ltda.

Reiner, A. (2022). W.R. Bion’s Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction, London: Routledge 

Reiner, A. (2022). Limitations of Language in the Psychic Realm. In W.R. Bion’s Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Chapter I, pp. 1-3), London: Routledge, 2022.

Reiner, A. (2022). The Selected Fact. In W.R. Bion’s Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Chapter 3, pp. 28-39), London: Routledge, 2022.

“What language are we speaking?: Bion and early emotional development. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 81(1) 6-26 (March 2021). 

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.

Fridays @CCP

June 20, 2025

Alan Bass, PhD

(New York, NY)

Freud on Hatred, Aggression, Sadism, and Violence

7-9pm (CST) ZOOM